I recently did a lot of looking at the Janome 1100SE, the SE is more advanced than even the 1100, and a new model is coming in September as mentioned above. While the 1100SE has all the embroidery magic that you could ever imagine and is much more user friendly than the older versions of embroidery machines...keep in mind that it has built in quilting stitches and designs. It stipples a few different patterns as well as doing straight quilting stitches and they all look like they are done by hand. It has the larger throat are as well, a boat load of decorative stitches and much much more than I can even think of right this moment. There is much info on the All Brands site. Price is not listed but I've seen the 1100 on ebay at around $3K so it's probably in that price range. While I'm not sure I would use the embroidery function all that much myself, while studying the 1100SE I had a strong feeling that it would be the last machine I would ever need to buy. Good luck in your decision!!
Rose L